[Fwd: Re: [school-discuss] Project Proposal]

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

owner-schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net wrote:

> Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Project Proposal
> From: Dominique Broeglin <broeglin@free.fr>
> To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net
>
> On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 19:00, Doug Loss wrote:
> > >
> > This sounds like a good idea.  I _think_ Bruno Vernier(are you on this
> > list yet, Bruno?) was considering whether his EduML work could be used
> > to help with something like this.  I know we at SEUL would be willing to
> > contribute hosting services to such a project.  Who's interested in
> > helping Michael on this?
> >
>
>         I may be interested. I just downloaded their spec in order to
> investigate a little more. The application I'm working on uses already
> and XML representation for its data. An export/import or communication
> format in SIF would be easy to add in the application.
>
>         Dom
>
> > > I know that there are other projects trying to develop
> > > similar specifications but do not have the backing of
> > > the industry. I'm not suggesting abandoning those
> > > efforts but see this as an opportunity to have an open
> > > source project mentioned in the same breath and on the
> > > same playing field as these industry giants.
> > >
> > Michael, could you contact those other projects and see if they'd be
> > interested in collaborating on this?  If nothing else, they'd probably
> > be intereted in thinking about a "translation" mechanism between the SIF
> > stuff ahd what they're working on.
> >

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